President Obama named San Diego atchitect, business and cultural leader Christine Forester to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Here is her bio as reported today on the Chicago Tribune blog.

Christine Forester, Member, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

Ms. Forester – an architect specializing in hospital architecture – switched careers in the 1980s to head Christine Forester Catalyst, a business, marketing and branding company. She served on the Board of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Board of the Museum of Photographic Arts; the Advisory Panel for the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture’s Allocations Programs; and, currently, Scripps Institute of Oceanography’s Advisory Council.